CHERRY MX Board 3.0 S Wired Mechanical Keyboard Aluminum Housing MX Red Silent Switches for Gaming and Office

The moment my hands went to it all the keys were exactly where my fingers expect them to be.Tactile and audible feedback are just right.I'm throwing out all the other keyboards I have because I won't be using them anymore now that I have this.

I broke down and bought this keyboard because three low-end models in a row had been pieces of crap, and this model was rated #1 on a "best of 2023" list for silent keyboards. So far, I love it, but it's taking some getting used to. All keyboards are slightly different, but the font on the letter keys is a sort of "NASA" space style font which is a little harder to read than your standard sans-serif keyboard letters. Even more different are the numbers and symbols on the number keys being reversed, so the symbols on each (! on the 1 key, @ on the 2 key, etc) are below the numbers rather than above.There are indicator lights for caps lock, scroll lock and number lock, but talk about subtle--I just found them!But I love the feel, I love the solid construction, I love how quiet the keys are, and I can type really fast on it. It's heavy and it doesn't slip or move while you work. I'm not using it for gaming, but I'm a writer and publisher, so I really need a good keyboard.The keyboard not only glows in rainbow colors, the colors continuously cycle in a slow pulse, which is definitely funky. When I get stuck on writing something I can take a break and watch the keyboard change colors while I think. :-)It works fine with my older Lenovo desktop, I just plugged it into an USB expander and zoom, it was good to go. The delivery was blindingly fast, it arrived the next day. The packaging...not so great. The keyboard had just been tossed into quite a large box with a couple of packing pillows. It arrived just fine (it didn't spend very long in transit!) but the manufacturers might want to know that Amazon is being a bit casual with their product.

Now this is a great keyboard! Absolutely silent, if I be careful how I press on the keys I can even make sure theres 0 noise at all. No annoying clicks. nice compact layout with great lightning, not overpowering. Solid alluminum body and comes with included risers. Could rise a tad more but still very comfortable with included risers. A pleasure to type on. I just hope it ends up being durable. If this review isn't edited in a few months then it is durable. My first keyboard (corsair) lasted 5 years, my steelseries lasted 4 months and was very upsetting. This keyboard feels much better than both and appears more solid than both, just have to wait and see how durable it is. Only thing id like to see is an FN key on the left since its a bit awkward to do volume up with it on the right. Worth it though for the compact layout. Also the software for cherry is clean and easy to use as well.

Great recoil while typing along with nice RGB backlight. Overall a solid build with good aluminium case.

I've always hated the aggressively clicky sound of mechanical keyboards, to the point where I eschewed them for membrane keyboards, despite knowing that those tend to be less responsive than mechanical ones. Well, cue my surprise when I learned that silent switches exist. Obviously, I knew that they wouldn't be truly silent and would still make noise, but if they were comparable to the noise level of membrane keyboards, that would be sufficient for me. I'd say these are indeed about as loud as a membrane, albeit with a different type of sound - more snappy than the mushy sort of sound that membrane keyboards generate. Sometimes, I can hear a spring being released after a keypress, but it's really not loud at all. Regardless, the Cherry MX Silent Red switches definitely have a pleasantly subdued volume, so I'm totally happy about my purchase already.But perhaps more importantly, is the performance good? Absolutely! It's very responsive and has NKRO, making it a worthy fit for gaming (I've been playing a lot of sidescrolling platformers, and it works great). Cherry's software is also thankfully very unobtrusive, and gives you control over the keyboard's functions and RGB (I always turn it off, haha). I suppose some people might not like the futuristic sort of font on the keys, but I don't really pay attention to that kind of stuff.